Ten films of the week: 12-18 February Endless complaints about the squalor of domestic cinema are what we all reconciled with, however, as with the squalor itself. Also, everyone agreed that the main reason for both squalor and complaints is a lack of money. Meanwhile, the artistic and ideological failure of modern Russian cinema is a much more frightening factor than the poor funds. What is the general creative crisis connected with?

Completely academic cross-cultural studies (comparative studies of different cultures), which foreign researchers love to indulge in, often unexpectedly highlight sociological and socio-psychological problems that are directly related to our present, and perhaps the future. One such problem is the problem of trust .

Russia and Central-Eastern Europe: getting rid of complexes or building new fences? Yaroslav Shimov Publication date: February 13, 2001 The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Igor Ivanov visited Prague and Bratislava in early February . For the first time in seven years, the chief of Russian diplomacy visited the countries of Central-Eastern Europe (as it is somewhat awkwardly customary to call that part of the Central European region that once belonged to the socialist camp).

Hunger 15 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Publication date: February 13, 2001 For a whole week I was itching in my head: “I need to go to Biblio-Globus.” Usually I go there, like any other bookstore, without any specific purpose - to gawk, leaf through, poke around (this is especially true for Biblio-Globus " refers), but here the goal was, that’s why it was itching, that’s why my legs weren’t moving.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has announced its decision lawsuit in the RIAA's against Napster . The ruling said that while Napster was infringing on the copyright of the recording studios that filed the lawsuit, District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's July decision to remove all infringing files (which amounted to shutting down the service) was still excessive .

Like You Are on the Server - 4: Link to Nirvana Buddhism and the Internet Linor Goralik Publication date: February 13, 2001 ( From the author: I tried to outline the outlines of the general topic - “Religion and the Network” here , so as not to repeat myself in each subsequent article, but only refer to them.

And with foreign writers who created in the twentieth century it is difficult to call at least a few whose fate would not be tragic. Almost any name that comes to mind can serve as a confirmation of this thesis (let's forget that the authors mentioned below differ from each other with the degree of talent; Martyrist is not a handling time). Dicked out in the tuberculosis sanatorium of Kafka. Hemingway, a spied with a skyscraper, stepped off the skyscraper.

Vladimir Glotser . Marina Durnovo. My husband Daniil Kharms . - M.: B.S.G.-Press, 2000. - 196 p., 32 l. ill.; circulation 5000 copies; ISBN 5-93381-022-3. Quote: Everyone was given something to eat, cooked, and bread, of course, but very little at a time, because if we ate more food, our intestines would begin to volvulus after hunger. They laid me and three or four other young people on the stove. I quickly warmed up. And then suddenly I saw a cat! An uneaten cat! I screamed: “Hold her!

Media on the Internet as a business and enterprise Lecture given to students of the Center for Communal Use on November 9, 2000 Anton Nosik Publication date: February 13, 2001 What is the Internet: Order out of chaos Good evening, I came here to talk about what I do on the Russian Internet, in general in this country, about what I know from personal experience, namely about the Internet media as a phenomenon, as a phenomenon, as a living organism, as an object of consumption.

All about Poetry 23 Miroslav Nemirov Publication date: February 13, 2001 Arion There were many of us at the front; Others strained the sail, Others unanimously resisted The oars are powerful in the depths. In silence Leaning on the steering wheel, our helmsman is smart The heavy boat sailed in silence; And I am full of careless faith, - I sang to the swimmers... Suddenly the bosom of the waves A noisy whirlwind crushed on the fly... Both the feeder and the swimmer died!

Martynov’s radical experimental opus is the explosive mixture of “abstruse” verses by Khlebnikov (text collage from the poem “Forest Longing” and “Nights in Galicia”) and mermaid songs from the collection of I.P. Sakharov, magic round dance and almost shamanic mysterious games, ancient chapels of Serbian-Gutsul folklore, and advanced techniques Poinoryism and sonorism and minimalist, rehearsal techniques of "new simplicity".

Americans have long been racking their brains: why do the French, who eat three times more high-calorie and junk food, die from a heart attack three times less often? This so-called French paradox has been attributed to everything - the healing virtues of red wine, olive oil, garlic and onions. Cheese was also suspected.